A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during May 2022. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. Broken May has seen me off my bike recovering from a… Continue Reading
Latest in: Gravel/Road – Asphalt with gravel sections
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At this time of the year the landscape is brightened by pink and white and, on this ride, we followed the blooming Cherry, and the apple blossom the latter now emerging at the end of the April. In Germany the cherry trees will be harvested in July and the yield is expected to be down… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during April 2022. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. Blossom in Gö – April 27 2022 Gravel/Road Ride At this… Continue Reading
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I ventured out to ride a ´road´ based bike tour that links together asphalt and Betonweg field roads with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads. Feldweg Home The long Göttingen Feldweg Omloop without the gnarly gravel sections above Volkerode. Living the dream – Flanders and Paris Roubaix. Bravo! – Tanja Erath for… Continue Reading
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DE Home – ENG Home The ´Weißen Straßen´of Göttingen On January 5, 2022, I rode into a winter storm to set the GPS for the short version of the Gö Strade Bianche, I became very cold, and I made a navigational error. I rode old school, rim brakes and 28mm tyres. My ride today corrected the error,… Continue Reading
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DE Home – ENG Home – Manifest – Video/Links – Galerie – Gutingi Rides 43km Route – 56km Route (DE) – 56km Route – 76km Route Brevet Card Schließ´ die Augen und stell Dir vor, Du seist in der Toskana, und mach´ sie erst am Ende der Radtour wieder auf. Strade Bianche de Gutingi In der… Continue Reading
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Home – Route 78km – Route 76km – Route 61km – Route 56km – Route 40km – Gallery The Gö Feldweg Omloop is a ‘road’ based bike ride linking together asphalt and Betonweg field roads (Feldweg) with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads into what we hope is a soulful ‘classic’ homage… Continue Reading
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The small Gö Feldweg Omloop ridden on a majority of Betonweg, or mixed surface farm/forest roads and cycle paths closed to general motor traffic. A homage to the Spring road race classics. It felt like riding in the Low Countries – I was head banging a wall of wind. Thankfully no rain! It was great… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during March 2022. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. Gö Strade Bianche 75.6km – March 27 2022 Gravel/Road Ride This… Continue Reading
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The ‘Gö Gravel Strade Bianche Hommage‘ follows a route we ride because it reminds us of the famous Strade Bianche ‘road’ races (for men and women) on the white roads of Tuscany, from Siena to Siena. Close your eyes and think yourself in Tuscany and then open them at ride end. This amended longer route… Continue Reading
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The majority of the ride was on Betonweg or mixed surface farm/forest roads and cycle paths closed to general motor traffic. On this ride in my head, I was riding the Gent Wevelgem cycle race, but not at their pace! This version of the Feldweg Omloop misses out the southern stages to Bisenhausen. Feldweg Home… Continue Reading
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(English below) Gö-Strade Bianche ist eine Radtour (kein Rennen), in der die „weißen Straßen“ von Göttingen eine wesentliche Rolle spielen. Die Idee kam uns, weil uns, als Neu-Göttinger und hoffnungslose Radsport-Romantiker, die hiesigen Feldwege in ihrer sommerlichen Weiße an die legendären Strade Bianche der Toscana erinnerten. Also dachten wir uns, dass es ja nicht schaden… Continue Reading
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Hallo to Jan, Margorette und friends. ENG The tour included asphalt and Betonweg field roads with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads. A shorter sister tour of the 78km. DE Die Tour beinhaltete Asphalt- und Betonweg-Feldwege mit Kopfsteinpflaster und Schotter, dazu Radwege und öffentliche Straßen. Die zweite kürzere Tour. Feldweg Home Tour… Continue Reading
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I ventured out to ride a ´road´ based bike tour that links together asphalt and Betonweg field roads with cobbles and gravel, plus cycle paths and public roads. Feldweg Home To my mind an inanimate bike can be given life by being ridden and the roads you may choose to follow can also imbue your… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during February 2022. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. I over did it a wee bit in January taking on… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during January 2022. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. The picture was taken by Josh Schenk and it reminded me… Continue Reading
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A page featuring galleries and links for cycle tours undertaken during December 2021. I ride regularly, and I do not necessarily post a web page for each tour I do. I do post to Facebook, Garmin Connect, Strava and occasionally to Komoot and Instagram. A West-Side End of Year Ride in Gö – December 29… Continue Reading
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We rode out from Göttingen onto the defunct Gartelbahn to Waterloo, and no, we did not pedal as far as Belgium or London. I had for many years lived in London close to Waterloo and the Station, and now by some odd quirk of fate I find myself living a short bike ride from another… Continue Reading
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On receiving my new ´gravel´ bike in September of 2021 I recalled that my first such machine was my road going Eddy Merckx (Columbus SLX) fitted with 25mm tourist tyres (they barely fitted) and my first mountain bike was a cyclo cross Orbit (Reynolds 531c) equipped with straight bars. Now, in a new year (2022)… Continue Reading
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DE Home – ENG Home DE Wir feiern das Strade Bianche-Rennen mit den ´Weißen Straßen´ von Göttingen sowie Beton-, Schotter-, Asphalt-Radwegen und öffentlichen Straßen. Es war nass und kalt, aber es war herzerwärmend, Jan Menkens zu treffen.Diese überarbeitete Tour hat Hügel und beinhaltet eine neue Westseite und einen Wechsel am Ende der Fahrt. Angetrieben von Cadbury Dairy… Continue Reading
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